31 Mar 2013

Late NDP MPP Peter KORMOS

Death of the Best Friend of Ontario MDs.

Following the drowning suicide of Welland Paediatrician A.HSU after the absurd Medical Review Committee (MRC) fined him $100,000 for not writing enough. MPP Kormas started Parliamentary action that led to the Justice Cory Inquiry which abolished the MRC.

The MRC was famous for having a Past College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) President GP Stan.BAIN as a`MRC Chairman who was later convicted.by Ont.Court Judge Lang for his part in the death, by criminal negligence, of Mrs.Pittman.(March 14,1994)

Indexed as

Pittman Estate v. Bain

Pittman et al. v. Bain; Toronto Hospital et al., Third

Parties; Pittman et al. v. Toronto Hospital et al.; Bain,

Third Party

112 D.L.R. (4th) 257

Court File Nos. 21487/91U; 21488/91U

Ontario Court (General Division)

Lang J.

March 14, 1994

Actions for damages for negligence causing physical harm.

Kenneth Arenson and David G. Harvey, for plaintiffs.

Mary M. Thomson and Colin L. Campbell, Q.C., for defendant, Dr.

Stanley T. Bain.

29 Mar 2013

NEW CORONA VIRUS

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New virus is MORE deadly than Sars, warn scientists after second Briton dies taking death toll to 11

New research shows coronavirus affects many organs and kills quickly
'It could be more virulent than Sars' says microbiologist
Announced this week that second British man has died from virus

By Anthony Bond
PUBLISHED: 13:45 GMT, 29 March 2013 | UPDATED: 17:09 GMT, 29 March 2013
A new virus which has claimed the life of a second Briton is potentially more deadly than Sars, scientists have warned. The mysterious coronavirus, which has emerged in the Middle East, attacks the respiratory system and was only identified six months ago.
So far there have been 11 deaths - with the World Health Organisation this week saying a second British man has died.

Killer: A new virus which has claimed the life of a second Briton is potentially more deadly than Sars, scientists have warned. This image shows a microscope image of coronavirus

New research has found that unlike Sars - severe acute respiratory syndrome - the new virus affects many different organs in the body, killing cells extremely quickly.
Speaking to the South China Morning Post, microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, said if the virus mutated further it could cause a deadly pandemic.
'It could be more virulent [than Sars]', he said. 'The Sars coronavirus infects very few human cell lines. But this new virus can infect many types of human cell lines, and kill cells rapidly.'

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Seventeen cases have been announced since the WHO issued an alert in September last year, most of them with links to the Middle East.
This week it was announced that a 73-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates had also died from the virus.
He was flown to hospital in Munich last week and died on Tuesday, the World Health Organisation said.

Source: Experts believe the coronavirus originated in bats

It also confirmed a British man with a history of travel to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had died in a British hospital.
The source of coronavirus is not known, but experts believe it originated in bats.
Animals which could host the virus include monkeys, pigs and even rabbits
Scientists say the new virus is from the same viral family that causes the common cold and also triggered the outbreak of Sars which swept the world from Asia in late 2003, leaving 775 dead.
Symptoms of coronavirus - which doctors say spreads rapidly around the body within 48 hours of infection - include severe breathing difficulties, fever, coughing and pneumonia.
It can also attack the kidneys, according to health experts.
In a statement issued late on Tuesday, the WHO said it was encouraging governments to watch for all severe respiratory infections and especially for any unusual patterns they might take.
For the moment, the U.N. agency said, it was not advising countries to set up any special screening for the virus at entry points and was not recommending any of the travel or trade restrictions introduced during the SARS epidemic.
The first reported case of infection by the previously little-known virus was a Qatari man who had also traveled to Saudi Arabia. Earlier in 2012, a 60-year-old Saudi national was believed to have died from it.

26 Mar 2013

UK DAILY MAIL on KREMBIL CENTRE @ Toronto Western

Woman cured of severe anorexia after doctors 'rewire' her brain to switch off negative thoughts about food

Kim Rollins, 36, suffered from severe anorexia since she was 15-years-old
Her weight dropped to five stone and she had two strokes and a heart attack
In a final attempt to save her doctors carried out pioneering surgery
Electrodes, powered by a pacemaker in her heart, were attached to her brain
Device blocks the abnormal nerve signals which trigger anorexic thoughts
She had now returned to a healthy weight and is taking a Master's degree

By Emma Innes
PUBLISHED: 10:23 GMT, 26 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:44 GMT, 26 March 2013

A woman has been cured of anorexia thanks to pioneering surgery that 'rewired' her brain.

Kim Rollins, 36, was on the brink of death after suffering a heart attack, two strokes and broken bones since the onset of the eating disorder when she was 15.

By her early twenties she weighed less than a seven-year-old child and could barely face eating half an apple a day.

23 Mar 2013

TORONTO FREE PROSTATE ASSESSMENT + BLADDER BOTOX

University Urology Associates 123 Edward Street, #1404 (416 979 9000) offers FREE (OHIP-PAID)
Prostate assessment. GP referral not needed.. Includes uroflowmetry + transrectal ultrasound (OPTIONAL
NON-OHIP tests saliva GENETIC TEST + urine PCA3.)

OHIP pays for BOTOX treatment for Neurological bladder spasm e.g. Cerebral Palsy, MS, Parkinson's Disease & Spinal disorders.

14 Mar 2013

NEED FOR GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL in METRO TORONTO

COMMENT: A resident-resident killing in the Wexford Charitable Home for the Aged. A few years ago there was a killing of a resident by another in the Villa Colombo Charitable Home for the Aged

Urgent need for a Geriatric Psychiatric Hospital for the psychotic aged. Now undiagnosed under the clinically useless euphemism of "special needs." .

In the 1980s Greenacres Home for the Aged in Newmarket, North of Toronto, was a "snakepit" for the undiagnosed psychotic aged in Metro Toronto Homes for the Aged.. Medical attention was given by local GPs.(NOT Geriatric Psychiatists).

The closure of two psychiatric hospitals in Metro was a medical disaster by (surprisingly) a Conservative government.

About The Wexford

The Wexford Residence is a non-profit, charitable organization founded by the Brotherhood Foundation. The Brotherhood Foundation is an outgrowth of the Church of the Christian Brotherhood.

As far as is known, this is the only church in the history of Ontario to have been established by an Act of Incorporation in the Provincial Legislature. The Bill incorporating the new Church was passed in March of 1919.

The first site for the Church was the Erskine Presbyterian Church formerly at Elm and University Avenue. Between the time when this property was expropriated for the Hospital for Sick Children in June 1948 and the construction of a new church at Blake and Grantbrook Avenue in 1960, the congregation held services at 111 Maitland Avenue which eventually became the home of the National Ballet of Canada.

By the spring of 1966 it had become obvious that declining membership and financial pressures made the closing of the Church inevitable. The assets of the congregation from the sale of the Church were put into a trust, and the interest on these funds was distributed to charitable Christian purposes.

In 1972 it was decided to put the money to good use. The Brotherhood Foundation was formed with the purpose of building a nursing home or similar project to help the aged.

With additional fundraising and assistance from various levels of Government, this multi-level seniors complex known as The Wexford Residence opened in 1978. It consisted at the time of retirement and nursing home (1 1/2 hr nursing care daily + Oxygen + catheter use), independent seniors apartments and an elderly persons centre. It was known at the time as “The House that love built”.

13 Mar 2013

DANGER of NURSE TELEPHONE DIAGNOSIS

From UK DAILY MAIL

Man, 20, dies from swine flu and pneumonia after NHS Direct nurse told him to go to the chemist rather than A&E

Unnamed patient called hotline due to diarrhoea and vomiting, chesty cough and discoloured mucous
Senior nurse who spoke to him ignored the computer's advice about going to A&E and sent him to chemist
Patient died the next day after being rushed to hospital

By Anna Hodgekiss
PUBLISHED: 12:43 GMT, 13 March 2013 | UPDATED: 13:33 GMT, 13 March 2013

A 20-year-old man died from swine flu and pneumonia after a senior nurse at NHS Direct told him to go to the chemist instead of A&E.
The unnamed man, known only as Patient A, had called the hotline twice in two days complaining of diarrhoea and vomiting for six days. He also described a chesty cough and discoloured mucous.
But rather than following the advice on the computer, which said the man should go to A&E, Fadzai Jaravaza, a senior nurse advisor for NHS Direct Essex, instead told the caller to get cough syrup from the chemist and treat himself.

(COMMENT:Clinical Diagnosis depends on ALL SENSES.. Telephone Diagnosis by a Nurse is dangerous.)

12 Mar 2013

TORONTO- PRIVATE HIFU TREATMENT for PROSTATE CANCER

123 EDWARD STREET MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING (between BAY & UNIVERSITY)

Can-Am HIFU, a private clinic located in Toronto, Ontario, specializes in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound therapy. Can-Am HIFU is a Canadian entity of International HIFU , a healthcare development company and medical device distributor headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.

HIFU with the Sonablate® 500 has been approved by Health Canada for the treatment of prostate cancer since June 2005. HIFU is an alternative treatment option to External Beam Radiation, Watchful Waiting, Radical Prostatectomy, Brachytherapy, Cryosurgery, Hormone Therapy and Chemotherapy.

The medical team at Can-Am HIFU includes seven urological surgeons: Jack Barkin, MD(Tor.77); Laurence Klotz, MD(Tor.77); Prof.Sender Herschorn, MD)McGill 92); Neil Fleshner, MD(Tor.86); Michael Robinette, MD;(Tor.84) Sidney Radomski, MD(Tor.84); and Antonio Finelli, MD(Tor.96). The centre’s staff also includes RNs and Anaesthetists.

ADDRESS
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Cost $12,000 - $22,000.

HIFU paid by RCMP and AIR CANADA

PSA: Free test only after a digital test.

In a cruel twist of fate, these three top prostate cancer experts have ALL been hit by the disease. Their stories are vital reading for men - and their loved ones

By Victoria Lambert
PUBLISHED: 00:35 GMT, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 01:51 GMT, 12 March 2013

Every year 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer — and more than 10,000 die from it.

Treatment can cause anxiety and side-effects such as impotence and incontinence. Many ask: what would the experts do in my shoes?

In a remarkable coincidence, three of the UK’s leading experts reveal that they, too, have the cancer and here they talk about their experiences . . .

(COMMENT: ONTARIO GOVT. PAYS FOR PSA IF MD DOES A DIGITAL BUT MAN HAS TO PAY IF DIGITAL IS NOT DONE.(more likely if GP female.)

10 Mar 2013

ANTIBIOTIC OVERUSE

Sunday, Mar 10 2013 12AM 46°F 3AM 42°F 5-Day Forecast

From UK DAILY MAIL

Superbugs 'will send the health service back to 19th century': Even routine surgery could become deadly, warns top medical adviser

Dame Sally Davies warns over timebomb over antibiotic resistance
GPs will be ordered to prescribe fewer antibiotics
Drug-resistant E-Coli could be responsible for 2,500 deaths
Cases of multidrug resistant tuberculosis rising

By Nick Mcdermott, Science Reporter
PUBLISHED: 23:00 GMT, 10 March 2013 | UPDATED: 23:33 GMT, 10 March 201

Growing threat: Infections like C. difficile are becoming increasingly difficult to treat as bugs become more resistant to antibiotics, leaving millions vulnerable

The rise of drug-resistant superbugs will drag the health service back ‘to the early 19th century’, Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned.
Unless urgent action is taken, the ‘ticking timebomb’ of growing antibiotic resistance could leave millions vulnerable to untreatable bugs within a generation.
This could make even routine operations such as hip surgery deadly, said Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies.
In an attempt to tackle the problem, GPs will be ordered to prescribe fewer antibiotics.
While infections are becoming increasingly difficult to beat, no new class of antibiotic has been discovered since 1987. In contrast, a new infection emerges on an almost yearly basis.
Dame Sally said the ‘catastrophic threat’ from infections resistant to frontline antibiotics is so serious that she has asked the Government to put antibiotic resistance on the national risk register – ranking it alongside a large-scale terrorist attack or flu pandemic.
‘That is one way of getting central and cross-government action internationally,’ she said. ‘It should be [on the register] because this is a growing problem. And if we don’t get it right, we will find ourselves in a health system not dissimilar to the early 19th century at some point.
‘If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics. And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.’
Acknowledging that ‘global action’ must be taken, she said: ‘This is an international threat.’
In the past five years, the number of cases of blood poisoning from antimicrobial resistant (AMR) forms of E. coli – which is twice as fatal as the normal bug – has gone up 60 per cent.

The drug-resistant gut bug alone, which is picked up in hospital in half of cases, could be responsible for up to 2,500 deaths in 2011 – more than MRSA and C. difficile combined.
And a deadly strain of tuberculosis which cannot be dealt with by most treatments has trebled in Britain in little over a decade.
Figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that instances of ‘multidrug resistant’ tuberculosis were 81 in 2011, up from just 28 in 2000, with around half of the patients dying.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291314/Superbugs-send-health-service-19th-century-Even-routine-surgery-deadly-warns-medical-adviser.html#ixzz2NBXJxx9e
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(COMMENT : Patients often demand antibiotics as a "HUMAN RIGHT" ; if refused threaten a complaint to the CPSO.)

8 Mar 2013

MIDDLE EAST: NEW CORONA VIRUS (HUMAM TRANSMISSION)

From UK DAILY MAIL

Doctors warned to be vigilant for warn new deadly virus sweeping the globe from Middle East

The CDC is warning state and local health officials about potential deadly infections from never-before-seen virus
CDC says people who develop a severe lower respiratory illness within 10 days of returning from the Middle East should be evaluated
Health officials are also issuing warnings about antibiotic-resistant bugs hitting U.S. hospitals

By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter
PUBLISHED: 06:43 GMT, 8 March 2013 | UPDATED: 09:59 GMT, 8 March 2013

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed 8.
Most of the infections have occurred in the Middle East, but a new analysis of three confirmed infections in Britain suggests the virus can pass from person to person rather than from animal to humans, the CDC said in its Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report on Thursday.
The virus is a coronavirus, part of the same family of viruses as the common cold and the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that first emerged in Asia in 2003. The new virus is not the same as SARS, but like the SARS virus, it is similar to those found in bats.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290033/Doctors-warned-vigilant-warn-new-deadly-virus-sweeping-globe-Middle-East.html#ixzz2Mx6Z6r5F
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(COMMENT: Remember 55y Toronto GP Dr.Nestor YANGA who died from SARS.in 2003. NO GOVT. COMPENSATION.to family as "SELF-EMPLOYED"..MDs should buy CHEAP WSIB INSURANCE FOR SELF & STAFF. N.(NIOSH) 95 masks USELESS. N100 for MINIMUM PROTECTION.. HEPA FILTER MASKS BEST BUT FRIGHTEN CLIENTS,)